Ozaukee County Newspapers
March, 1885
The Cedarburg Weekly News
March 4, 1885
Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin
LOCAL MATTERS
To-day the inauguration of our new President, Grover Cleveland takes place.
Mr. Albert WEBER's benefit concert will take place on Easter Monday.
Mr. E.A. GELTCH the druggist will arrive this week from Sheboygan.
Our band made a pleasure trip to Horn's Corner last Sunday.
Mr. B. WEBER proprietary of Weber's Hotel received a new pool table last week.
The teachers and children of our school attended the funeral of their scholar and
schoolmate, Miss Maggie REYNOLDS, last Tuesday.
DIED--In the town of Cedarburg, on Thursday, February 26th, Mrs. HOLLAND, wife of
the late Jeremiah HOLLAND. Aged 61 years.
Albert KNUPPEL has received the contract for building the new meat market for Wm.
BUCH and is busy erecting it.
DIED -- In the town of Cedarburg, on Saturday the 28th day of February of consumption,
Maggie REYNOLDS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank REYNOLDS. Aged 20 years and 7 months.
Messrs. Wm. HILGEN, Max HARTWIG and Diedrich WITTENBERG of Milwaukee were in town
last Sunday.
The new grocery store of E. HILGEN, Sen., near the Columbia Mills is now open for
business. Mr. H. invites all his friends to call and see him.
The masquerade ball at the Apollo Hall last Saturday evening was well attended. Some
very good costumes were present, among them were two clowns who entertained the folks
for a long time with their gymnastic exercises All present enjoyed themselves.
In another column the announcement of Judge EGHART as a candidate for re-election
as County Judge, will be found. As there is no opposition to him, we trust the formality
of a perfectly useless county convention will be disposed with.
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NOTICE--The saddle and harness business heretofore carried on under the name of H.
BEHNISCH & Son, will be continued at the old place by the undersigned, who respectfully
asks a portion of the patronage of the public that may need anything in his line.
Henry BEHNISCH Jr., Cedarburg, Feb. 25th, 1885.
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The West Bend Democrat as well as the Times print the address delivered by us last
week before the old settlers club. We thank them both kindly for entertaining so
favorable opinion of this production as to consider it worth printing; but wish that
we had had the proof reading before publication, as our handwriting is not the best
and several errors are noticeable.
The Cedarburg Weekly News
Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
March 11, 1885
LOCAL MATTERS
Mr. Fred HILGEN of Racine was in town last Tuesday.
Mr. Arthur BOERNER has returned home after an absence of about five months.
Our dramatical society will have their first theatre on Sunday the 22nd inst. in
the Turner Hall.
On Saturday the 14th inst., Henry HAAS of Thienville will have a masquerade ball.
He invites all his friends.
Chas. GOTTSCHALK received a car load of buggies and cutters last week. Call on him
if you want a good cheap rig.
Misses Agnes and Sophia LANGHEINRICH left for Chicago last Monday to visit relatives.
Ten new members have joined the Cedarburg Band which now has twenty-six members.
Miss Maggie REYNOLDS died on Sunday, March 1st of Catarrh-Pneumonia, and not of consumption
as stated in last week's NEWS.
Mr. E.A. GELTCH and family arrived from Sheboygan yesterday. His drug store will
be opened for business in a few days.
Mr. Theo BOERNER of this place will teach the intermediate department of our public
school in place of Miss J. THELEN who resigned last week.
Mr. James CASSIDY, of Saukville, has purchased the share belonging to S.S. LEONARD
of this place, of the Percheron Norman Stallion Bayard 2nd, and is now the proprietor
of that horse.
At the monthly meeting of the Cedarburg Fire Co. last Friday it was decided to build
a tower for their hose sixty-five feet high, also to put a bell in the top of it
and build an addition for the Hook and Ladder wagon. Work will begin at once.
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SENATOR E.R. BLAKE OF PORT WASHINGTON
We copy the following sketch of the military career of our Senator, E.R. BLAKE during
the late civil war from the Madison Democrat. The particulars of his campaigns are
news to us, as they will be to most of the people of this County. The Senator never
speaks about the matter, which we consider the height of modesty in a man who has
participated perhaps in as many battles as any other living volunteer in the army:
"Senator BLAKE is one of the boys of '61, whose military history is connected
with great events. He was born in 1844, was brought as a four-year-old to Wisconsin.
When he was 17 years of age he enlisted Co. H, 24th Wis., and before the end of a
year had won shoulder straps for merit and bravery. He served as color sergeant of
that regiment, which is next thing to a death warrant. His service was cast in the
Army of the Cumberland. He participated in the battles of Perryville and Chaplin
Hills. He shared in the bloody work at Stone River, Dec. 30, 1862 and in the battle
of Chickamanga. After this disastrous, but hard fought battle, BLAKE with his regiment
fell back upon Chattanooga as was one of long line of brave men who stormed up Mission
ridge on the 25th of November 1863, and drove Bragg from a position which he himself
declared that a skirmish line could hold against any assaulting forces. No sooner
was this campaign over than BLAKE went with his regiment on a 130 miles march to
raise the siege of Knoxville. This march and movements in East Tennessee kept the
regiment on to hop most of the winter, and on the 16th of Jan. 1864, they fought
the battle of Dandridge under Sheridan.
The next spring BLAKE's regiment set out on the Atlanta campaign. This was a continual
battle for months; the advance was one continual skirmish thickening at times into
severe and bloody battles. BLAKE was engaged in the general engagements at Rocky
Face, Resae, Calhoun, Adairville, Dallas, Lost Mountain, (unreadable) Mountain, Peach
Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Lovejoy Station. After the fall of Atlanta, BLAKE's
regiment marched back to Chattanooga and in November following was under Thomas,
preparing for the grand tussle with Hood before Nashville.
In the battle of Franklin the 24th regiment took a conspicuous and (unreadable portion).
The brigade in which they (unreadable word) received the credit of turning the tide
of the battle by a charge. Maj. Gen. Stanley gave the 24th regiment the credit. He
said, "at the very moment all seemed to be lost, the routing of the rebels and
the retaking of our batteries, at the moment the rebels were about to turn our own
guns upon us, it was a most important crisis in the battle." This feat was accomplished
by BLAKE's regiment by a charge in which he took part. He also participated in the
battle of Nashville, on the 15th of December, and in pursuit of the rooted and defeated
army of Hood.
At the close of the war Lieutenant BLAKE was mustered out, and like the great (unreadable
portion) . . . of building up his fortune in civil life. He has since been engaged
in prosperous business as a merchant at Port Washington. He was elected as an independent
candidate member of the assembly in 1874. So popular is he in his section of the
state that he was elected state senator in 1882 without opposition. He is a member
of the society of the Cumberland and attends its annual reunions."
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ST. PATRICK'S DAY
The following programme will be presented on St. Patrick's Evening, March 17th, under
the auspices of St. Franics Borgia's Temperance Society, int he basement of the Church.
All are cordially invited to attend. The exercises will commence at 7 o'clock.
PROGRAMME
1. Music, "St. Patrick's Day," Miss Mary Trottmann
2. "The Harp that once through Tara's Hall," Choir
3. "The Day we Celebrate," Mr. J.E. RICHERT
4. Comic song, "Irish Student," Rev. P.H. DURNIN
5. Declamation, "Erin's Flag," Jas. O'BRIEN
6. "Ah! Could I teach the Nightingale," Misses FAGAN and THELEN
7. "Gently down the Stream of Tiroe," Miss J. THELEN and Mr. B. RICHERT
8. "The Irish American," Hon. Wm. H. FITZGERALD
9. "The Last Rose of Summer," Miss Mamie DURNIN
10. "The Polish Boy," Miss Tessie BANNON
11. Solo, "Far Away," Miss Agnes FAGAN
12. Recitation, Miss Mary O'BRIEN
13. "Killarney," Miss Mamie DURNIN
14. "The Land of our Adoption," Mr. C.F. KENNEY
15. Duet, "Mocking Bird" violin & organ, Miss M. TROTTMANN & Mr.
B. RICHERT
16. Comic Song, "The Rollicking Boy," Rev. P.H. DURNIN
17. "Exile of Erin," Miss Agnes FAGAN
18. "All things are Beautiful," Misses THELEN & DURNIN
19. Duet, "Come into the Garden Maud," Miss TROTTMANN & Mr. RICHERT
20. "Music on the Waves," Miss M. DURNIN & J.E. RICHERT
21. Declamation, Miss Theresa FAGAN
22. "Kerry Dance," Miss Jennie REYNOLDS
23. "The Cause We Advocate," Mr. J. MULLANEY
24. Song, Mr. Joe HICKEY
25. Closing Remarks, Rev. P.H. DURNIN
26. "Good Night, Duet, Misses THELEN and DURNIN
The Cedarburg Weekly News
Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
March 18, 1885
LOCAL MATTERS
Mr. August BENDER of Geneva Lake is home.
Mr. Louis BERGMANN of Milwaukee was home last week to attend the funeral of his brother's
child.
F. ZIMMERMANN of Mequon will have a ball at his hall on Easter Monday the 6th of
April.
Mr. Chas. McELROY and wife of Norway, Mich., were in town last week visiting their
relatives.
The store of E. HILGEN recently opened near the Columbia Mills is doing quite a business.
The youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. F.W. BERGMANN died last Thursday of diphtheria,
and was buried in the Cedarburg cemetery on Sunday afternoon.
The contract for repairing the St. Francis Catholic Church at this place was let
to parties in Milwaukee, they being the lowest bidders.
HENTSCHEL & JOCHEM sell the Whitehill sewing machine, the best and cheapest made.
Canned Goods -- String beans 10 cts. per can, sweet corn 10 and 12 cts. tomatoes
3 cans 10 cts. at BOERNER Bros.
At last the broadhead dress goods have arrived, the finest line ever brought to this
city are on exhibition at BOERNER Bros.
The spring stock of dry goods will arrive soon at HENTSCHEL & JOCHEM.
Mr. Wm. WEBER, son of our brewer, John WEBER, left for Marinette last week on business.
On Saturday the 11th day of April, John B. SIMON of Grafton will have a grand ball
in his hall. LEISERING's band (unreadable).
Mr. J.W. JOHANN and son Albert, of Depere, were in town last week visiting friends
and relatives.
Our dramatical society will have their first theater next Sunday the 22nd inst. All
are invited to attend. Admission 25 cents, children 15 cts. After the performance
a grand ball will be held.
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Cedarburg has been unusually quiet for the past week; this is partly owing to the
state of the roads and the weather. The former allow no sleighing, while for wagons
the road is pretty rough. We have been confined to the house and part of the time
to the bed in consequence of a severe cold contracted on our last visit to Madison
and the present cold weather will not allow us even a short walk out of doors if
we felt like it.
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One after another of our old Irish settlers, after having sold out their farms in
this neighborhood for good prices, have come to reside in this city by purchasing
nice comfortable homesteads. The latest acquisition of the kind is our old friend
FARRELL who after selling out his fine farm, has bought of Mr. Jacob ZAUN a fine
new brick dwelling on the Columbia Mill road and will reside with his wife hereafter
in the city.
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The cheese makers and farmers interested in that branch of business in Ozaukee county
held a meeting at ALBRECHT's hall in Saukville on Monday last and transacted business
of importance. Mr. J.A. SMITH, of Cedarburg, the chief of the cheese makers of Ozaukee
county, whose excellent advice if followed by the farmers furnishing milk to the
factories, will secure to them the best of results, was also in attendance. -- P.W.
Advertiser
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FIRE -- The dwelling house of A.M. ALLING on his farm in the town of Saukville on
the road from the latter place to Port Washington was burnt down on the morning of
Thursday last. Loss estimated at $2,000 insured for $1,200.
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From the Star
The planing mill was put in operation Wednesday and the various machines fully tested.
Quite a crowd collected to see the sight.
Fredonia Station is coming to the front as a shipping point for live stock dealers.
Shipments from that place have gradually increased during the past year. Mr. J.P.
COLTEAUX, the landlord of the Station hotel, does quite a business as a result of
the number of buyers and sellers congregating at that point.
The Cedarburg Weekly News
Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
March 25, 1885
LOCAL MATTERS
Sheriff WEYKER, John FITZGERALD, Mr. SCHWIN and other Port Washington citizens were
in the city last Saturday.
Mr. John DIETRICH of La Mars, Iowa, is in the city visiting his numerous friends
and relatives.
Last Monday, Merry James, one of S.S. LEONARD's stallions, kicked at the horse of
Hugh TURNER of Fredonia while in the stable of H. SCHELLENBERG's at Horns Corner
and broke its leg in two places.
Mr. John SCHUETTE has sold his property, opposite the paint shop of G. WURTHMANN,
to Mr. John DAILEY.
The marble yard of Mr. Frank TOLL will be moved to this city, and will be located
opposite the Union Meat Market of F. HOFFMANN, where a new building is being erected.
Theo. THIELGES, manager of Schlitz Grove at West Bend was in the city Tuesday, contemplating
to make arrangements with the Turn Verein for the use of their hall to open a roller
skating rink.
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NOTICE -- The undersigned hereby announces himself as a candidate for re-election
to the office of County Judge, and respectfully requests the support of his friends.
L. EGHART, Port Washington, Feb. 24th 1885.
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Another Old Settler gone to Render his Final Account
Frederick E. TOENLESSEN died at Mequon last Wednesday, March 18th of old age. The
deceased came to this country in the year 1846 together with a younger brother and
a friend by the name of CORDES direct from the dukedom of Oldenburg, Germany, where
he was born at the town of Jever on the 5th day of October in the year 1804 and consequently
had passed his four score of years last October.
The three immigrants bought of George MANLY and eighty acre farm on the Green Bay
road joining on the north the present REYNOLDS farm in Mequon where they carried
on for some years what the Germans call "Latin" farming. All three gentlemen
were well educated but not so much that they could make a living in a log house and
on a few acres of cleared ground. After a few years of sore trial, they sold out
the farm, the younger TOENLESSEN went to the southern part of the state and circumstances
pointed out very strongly that he was murdered for his money at or near Kenosha;
his body was probably thrown into the lake, as it was never discovered after his
disappearance. CORDES went to Green Bay and remained there or in that neighborhood
for some time; he is probably alive yet as he was some twenty years younger than
the deceased, but of late we have not heard from him.
The trio used to come regularly every Saturday evening to Cedarburg while residing
together on the farm to recuperate from the hard labor (?) of the week past. The
late Col. HORNEFFER's Washington House was then made their head quarters, where in
those early days beer was on tap so muddy that a frog could not be discovered if
he had been with the beer in the same glass. Not to stir the barrel so often unnecessarily
and avoid frequent tapping, they had it drawn off in a pail, and we remember them
sitting around it and helping themselves by dipping the glasses into it, cracking
their jokes and enjoying themselves with the company then and there assembled. This
was nearly forty years ago, since then beer has greatly improved not only in cleanness
but also in strength. The stuff in those days and in the country was little better
or stronger than brown pop.
Our deceased friend was an old bachelor and never left the town of Mequon, but resided
there until his death, boarding around from place to place where it suited him best.
He was a very careful and excellent surveyor and held the office of county surveyor
for a number of years. For the last thirty years or so he kept school in different
districts of the town, and as he had some money of his own and was never extravagant
must have left quite a little sum behind him which, we understand he disposed of
by a last will and testament, the particulars of which we have not learned. The deceased,
like most old bachelors was a peculiar kind of a man; he seemed to enjoy life, was
always cheerful and had a high sense for the ludicrous, whenever he could get hold
of something of the kind to communicate to his friends.
He was the soul of honor, carrying sometimes his views in that respect a little too
far, censuring people that did not quite deserve such criticism as fell from his
lips. His funeral took place on Saturday last and was attended by a large concourse
of friends and acquaintances and his remains were deposited in the Mequon cemetery.
Mr. W.F. JAHN who knew the deceased intimately from the time of his arrival, and
was highly spoken of by all those who were in attendance at the grave. It is said
that TOENLESSEN before he died expressly stipulated that the earth over his body
should (unreadable) and no monument (unreadable). We regret very much that we were
unable to follow our old and much esteemed friend to his last resting place, on account
of sickness which has confined us to our home for the past two weeks. He lived to
the full extent of the time allotted to man, and passed away peacefully after a short
illness and without pain. May the earth be light over him.
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